Snowmageddon

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Hundreds of people participate in a massive snowball fight in DuPont Circle in Washington after a heavy snowstorm blanketed the nation's capital and much of the Mid Atlantic region on Saturday. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Statues at the Korean War Memorial in Washington are covered in snow on Saturday in Washington. Jacquelyn Martin/AP

The White House is blanketed in snow in Washington on Saturday. Alex Brandon/AP

Mike Nagao snowboards down the snow-covered steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art during a winter storm in the city on Saturday. Matt Rourke/AP

The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial and the Capitol are seen on Friday in Washington as snow continues to fall. Charles Dharapak/AP

Pedestrians walk on King Street in Alexandria, Va., on Saturday evening following a storm that dropped over two-feet of snow in the region. Cliff Owen/AP

Snow falls at the White House while a Marine stands guard with President Barack Obama working in the West Wing on Friday. Charles Dharapak/AP

Trees covered by snow are seen in Washington on Saturday night after a blizzard dumped over two feet of snow in the Mid Atlantic. The storm caused at least two fatalities and paralyzed travel in the region. Local weather forecasters said the storm could be the heaviest snowfall in 90 years in the Washington area. Yuri Gripas/Reuters

Plows work on Centerport Parkway over I-95 as snow continues to fall in Stafford, Va., on Saturday. Peter Cihelka/The Free Lance-Star/AP

An abandoned grocery cart sits in a snow-covered parking lot on the south side of Indianapolis, Ind. on Friday. As the Mid Atlantic was being pummeled by a blizzard that dropped more than two feet of snow, Central Indiana had a winter storm warning in effect until Saturday. Michael Conroy/AP

An off ramp is seen covered with snow during Snowmageddon in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday. Carolyn Kaster/AP

People sled in the snow down 13th St. in Washington on Saturday. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP

People play with their dogs at a park in Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday as a massive snow storm hits the city. Jacquelyn Martin/AP

The snow is piled up in front of the West Wing of the White House on Saturday. Alex Brandon/AP

People participate in a mass snowball fight in DuPont Circle in Washington on Saturday. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Pedestrians take pictures of the US Capitol along a snow-covered Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Saturday. Stelios Varias/Reuters

A jogger makes his way through the snow in front of the US Capitol in Washington on Wednesday. A blizzard lashed the U.S. East Coast for the second time in less than a week, wreaking havoc from Washington to New York by forcing government agencies, the United Nations and schools to close. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

After widespread protests, a six-month state of emergency started in October. Now, much depends on the next move of leaders who have long used their track record of economic development to paper over widespread human rights abuses and political repression.

ByJames Jeffrey, ContributorDecember 9, 2016

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For nearly a year, mass protests surged across Ethiopia – and stormed across the world’s headlines – as a movement that began with farmers fighting land grabs outside the country’s capital mushroomed into the country’s most sustained and widespread period of dissent and protests since its ruling party came to power more than two decades ago.